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In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions.
William Sloane Coffin
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William Sloane Coffin
Age: 81 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 1
Died: 2006
Died: April 12
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New York City
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I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.
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Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
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For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature.
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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift.
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I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'
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The temptation to moralize is strong it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws in the system.
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We have sold our birthright of freedom and justice for a mess of national security.
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Without love, violence will change the world it will change it into a more violent one.
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Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are.
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If your heart is full of fear, you won't seek truth you'll seek security. If a heart is full of love, it will have a limbering effect on the mind.
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We are not loved because we are valued we are valued because we are loved.
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It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion the Bible seeks to open one.
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People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.
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We put our best foot forward, but it's the other one that needs the attention.
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What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.
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God knows it is emotionally satisfying to be righteous with that righteousness that nourishes itself on the blood of sinners. But God also knows that what is emotionally satisfying can be spiritually devastating.
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Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.
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There are three kinds of patriots, two bad, one good. The bad ones are the uncritical lovers and the loveless critics. Good patriots carry on a lover's quarrel with their country, a reflection of God's lover's quarrel with all the world.
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In reality, there are no biblical literalists, only selective literalists. By abolishing slavery and ordaining women, millions of Protestants have gone far beyond biblical literalism. It's time we did the same for homophobia.
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Christians have to listen to the world as well as to the Word - to science, to history, to what reason and our own experience tell us. We do not honor the higher truth we find in Christ by ignoring truths found elsewhere.
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